Reknowned sleigh-driver Jacques Laneige staggered through the blustering cold wind blowing through the forested countryside. Grasping at a wooden fencepost, he looked down, recoiling in horror as he realized the blood on his bemittened hands was not his own. Behind him, the injured horse whinnied, the merry jingling of his bells seeming out of place given the horrible tragedy that had just occurred. Hearing a pained cry, Laneige froze, turning slowly. From the crushed mess of the upsot sleigh, world-famous socialite Fanny Bright was trying to pull her injured body from the drifted snowbank. Laneige shuddered. Despite the horse's tendency toward misfortune, this crash was no accident. Someone had tried to kill him -- but whom?